diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 542d631..6319ad6 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.8.6
+    rev: v0.11.4
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: [--exit-non-zero-on-fix]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black-pre-commit-mirror
-    rev: 24.10.0
+    rev: 25.1.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
 
@@ -25,18 +25,18 @@ repos:
       - id: trailing-whitespace
 
   - repo: https://github.com/python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema
-    rev: 0.30.0
+    rev: 0.32.1
     hooks:
       - id: check-dependabot
       - id: check-github-workflows
 
   - repo: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint
-    rev: v1.7.6
+    rev: v1.7.7
     hooks:
       - id: actionlint
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v1.14.1
+    rev: v1.15.0
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
         args:
@@ -50,22 +50,22 @@ repos:
         additional_dependencies: ["types-requests"]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/tox-dev/pyproject-fmt
-    rev: v2.5.0
+    rev: v2.5.1
     hooks:
       - id: pyproject-fmt
 
   - repo: https://github.com/abravalheri/validate-pyproject
-    rev: v0.23
+    rev: v0.24.1
     hooks:
       - id: validate-pyproject
 
   - repo: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox-ini-fmt
-    rev: 1.4.1
+    rev: 1.5.0
     hooks:
       - id: tox-ini-fmt
 
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
-    rev: v2.3.0
+    rev: v2.4.1
     hooks:
       - id: codespell
         args: [--ignore-words-list=commitish]
diff --git a/cherry_picker/cherry_picker.py b/cherry_picker/cherry_picker.py
index 52df11d..90d40c7 100755
--- a/cherry_picker/cherry_picker.py
+++ b/cherry_picker/cherry_picker.py
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ def amend_commit_message(self, cherry_pick_branch):
     def pause_after_committing(self, cherry_pick_branch):
         click.echo(
             f"""
-Finished cherry-pick {self.commit_sha1} into {cherry_pick_branch} \U0001F600
+Finished cherry-pick {self.commit_sha1} into {cherry_pick_branch} \U0001f600
 --no-push option used.
 ... Stopping here.
 To continue and push the changes:
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ def continue_cherry_pick(self):
         else:
             click.echo(
                 f"Current branch ({cherry_pick_branch}) is not a backport branch. "
-                "Will not continue. \U0001F61B"
+                "Will not continue. \U0001f61b"
             )
             set_state(WORKFLOW_STATES.CONTINUATION_FAILED)
 
@@ -822,12 +822,12 @@ def cherry_pick_cli(
 ):
     """cherry-pick COMMIT_SHA1 into target BRANCHES."""
 
-    click.echo("\U0001F40D \U0001F352 \u26CF")
+    click.echo("\U0001f40d \U0001f352 \u26cf")
 
     try:
         chosen_config_path, config = load_config(config_path)
     except ValueError as exc:
-        click.echo("You're not inside a Git tree right now! \U0001F645", err=True)
+        click.echo("You're not inside a Git tree right now! \U0001f645", err=True)
         click.echo(exc, err=True)
         sys.exit(-1)
     try: